{"id":50216,"date":"2025-12-15T15:31:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T15:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=50216"},"modified":"2025-12-15T15:31:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T15:31:35","slug":"gimp-3-2-rc2-added-barrel-rotation-support-for-mypaint-brushes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/gimp-3-2-rc2-added-barrel-rotation-support-for-mypaint-brushes\/","title":{"rendered":"GIMP 3.2 RC2 added Barrel Rotation support for Mypaint Brushes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The second RC development release for the GIMP image editor 3.2 is out!<\/p>\n

The new release introduced less features compare to the last RC1, but focused on improvements to performance and existing features and vulnerability fixes.<\/p>\n

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First, for user with a stylus pen, the MyPaint Brushes tool now support barrel rotation<\/strong> when relevant to the specific brush selected. The feature however is not tested because the developers don’t have a stylus to try it out.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately I can’t test as we don’t have any stylus with such barrel rotation feature (and unfortunately this hardware feature is discontinued and getting a stylus with this is extra-hard now), but that should work. And at the very least, it does match with MyPaint’s implementation.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This RC also improved the Paint Select support<\/b>. It’s an experimental feature introduced since version 3.0. User may try the feature by starting GIMP with --show-playground<\/code> option, then go to preferences -> playground to enable it. Though, the gegl library needs to be compiled with workshop<\/code> enabled.<\/p>\n

In the release, it added progression feedback and improved local region computation to this experimental feature. And, it now processes more events, reset the scribbles at every stroke.<\/p>\n

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GIMP 3.2 RC2 also removed the restriction that prevented saving and exporting when no drawables are selected, raised the clipboard brush and pattern max size limit to 8192 for 64-bit processors, while it stays 1024 on 32-bit architecture, and it greatly improved the speed for initial font loading.<\/p>\n

It now has a much more robust path importing from SVG by latest C-based librsvg code, and uses opaque path IDs for the ‘id’ attribute for SVG exporting, but not the GUI-visible path name anymore, to match the SVG specs.<\/p>\n

To prevent infinite loops with cycling links, it also added a few safety checks when creating new link layers and when loading XCF files with link layers.<\/p>\n

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Other changes include:<\/p>\n